Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’
Siri describes itself not as a “mobile search tool,” as I have in the headline, but rather as a “virtual personal assistant.” The company went public with its technology and iPhone app just a few months ago and now Apple has reportedly acquired it for an undisclosed sum that is likely more than $50 million but less than $100 million.
Although three-quarters of marketers use third-party mobile networking applications, most do not create their own customized apps or use mobile advertising, according to a new survey from SocialMediaExaminer.com.
There’s been no shortage of blog coverage about the stray iPhone SEO left behind by Apple engineer Gray Powell in a California bar last month. While gadget and Apple blogs have been busily covering every possible piece of minutia around the incident, the device, and whether or not Mr. Powell wears black turtlenecks, the crew at Help Net Security was doing a different kind of digging.
2010 is the next year that has been talked about year after year as far as mobile online use truly taking off.
The Apple iPhone was indeed revolutionary and provided the true smartphone leap forward, that has been followed and in many ways being surpassed by Android, with more and more mainstream users browsing online via mobile devices.
Will Apple have its own search engine in the not-so-distant future? That’s what a leading tech analyst is predicting is likely to happen. Gene Munster, who analyzes Apple for Piper Jaffray, told Business Insider that he believes there is a “70 percent” chance that Apple will build its own search engine in the next five years.